Ozzie Smith

1978–1996 · 19 seasons · Bats both sides, throws right · Born 1954

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Hitting

Season	Team	Lg	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	WAR
1978	San Diego Padres	NL	159	668	590	69	152	17	6	1	46	47	43	40	.258	.311	.312	.623	3.9
1979	San Diego Padres	NL	156	649	587	77	124	18	6	0	27	37	37	28	.211	.260	.262	.522	-0.2
1980GG	San Diego Padres	NL	158	712	609	67	140	18	5	0	35	71	49	57	.230	.313	.276	.589	3.8
1981GG	San Diego Padres	NL	110	507	450	53	100	11	2	0	21	41	37	22	.222	.294	.256	.549	2.0
1982GG	St. Louis Cardinals	NL	140	567	488	58	121	24	1	2	43	68	32	25	.248	.339	.314	.653	4.3
1983GG	St. Louis Cardinals	NL	159	626	552	69	134	30	6	3	50	64	36	34	.243	.321	.335	.657	4.1
1984GG	St. Louis Cardinals	NL	124	484	412	53	106	20	5	1	44	56	17	35	.257	.347	.337	.684	4.6
1985GG	St. Louis Cardinals	NL	158	615	537	70	148	22	3	6	54	65	27	31	.276	.355	.361	.716	4.7
1986GG	St. Louis Cardinals	NL	153	609	514	67	144	19	4	0	54	79	27	31	.280	.376	.333	.709	3.4
1987GGSS	St. Louis Cardinals	NL	158	706	600	104	182	40	4	0	75	89	36	43	.303	.392	.383	.775	5.7
1988GG	St. Louis Cardinals	NL	153	669	575	80	155	27	1	3	51	74	43	57	.270	.350	.336	.686	5.4
1989GG	St. Louis Cardinals	NL	155	664	593	82	162	30	8	2	50	55	37	29	.273	.335	.361	.696	3.4
1990GG	St. Louis Cardinals	NL	143	592	512	61	130	21	1	1	50	61	33	32	.254	.330	.305	.635	0.9
1991GG	St. Louis Cardinals	NL	150	641	550	96	157	30	3	3	50	83	36	35	.285	.380	.367	.747	4.3
1992GG	St. Louis Cardinals	NL	132	590	518	73	153	20	2	0	31	59	34	43	.295	.367	.342	.708	5.1
1993	St. Louis Cardinals	NL	141	603	545	75	157	22	6	1	53	43	18	21	.288	.337	.356	.693	4.1
1994	St. Louis Cardinals	NL	98	433	381	51	100	18	3	3	30	38	26	6	.262	.326	.349	.675	0.7
1995	St. Louis Cardinals	NL	44	182	156	16	31	5	1	0	11	17	12	4	.199	.282	.244	.526	-0.4
1996	St. Louis Cardinals	NL	82	261	227	36	64	10	2	2	18	25	9	7	.282	.358	.370	.728	1.2
Career	19 seasons		2573	10778	9396	1257	2460	402	69	28	793	1072	589	580	.262	.339	.328	.667	61.0

Gold shading marks a top-five finish in that league that season. Filled for first, shaded for second and third, faint for fourth and fifth, with the exact place in the corner of the cell. These rankings are ours, not part of the source data: we work them out from the season lines on this site and count each league on its own, so a first in the American League is not a first across baseball. Rate statistics use the same qualifying line as the season tool, which is why a relief pitcher can have the lowest ERA in his league and still have no shading on it — he did not pitch enough innings to qualify. A ranking is only drawn when its column is on screen; press Show all columns for the rest.

The dark chips beside a season are awards. Those are records rather than our arithmetic: MVP (Most Valuable Player), CY (Cy Young Award), ROY (Rookie of the Year), GG (Gold Glove), SS (Silver Slugger). Two of them are lettered in the metal they are named after — Gold Glove in gold, Silver Slugger in silver — but the letters say which is which, so nothing here depends on telling the two apart by colour.

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Not every award existed yet. This database has Silver Slugger from 1980. A season before that is a season the award did not exist, not a season this player missed out on.

The WAR columns are worked out on this site — they are not part of the source data, and they will not match Baseball-Reference exactly.

Everything else on this page comes straight from the Lahman database. WAR is our own calculation from those same season lines: fielding is estimated from putouts and assists rather than measured, fielding innings are missing before 1954, and the fielding component is capped. Treat it as a reasonable estimate of value, not as a record. The season tool explains the method in full.

— means the value is not in the source for that season, which is not the same as zero. In the Career and Subtotal rows it marks a statistic that cannot be added up across seasons — wOBA and FIP both need league constants that change every year, so we leave them blank rather than invent one. Leagues on this page: NL (National League).

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